Microsoft researches 'Shield'

[SM-Bot]

As another round of computer worms attacked PCs around the world yesterday, scientists in Microsoft's advanced research division demonstrated a possible solution. Shields up Cap'ain!

The prototype technology is called Shield because it basically installs a shield over vulnerabilities found in software, temporarily protecting the systems until a permanent security patch is developed.
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[MJO]

Let's hope their so called shield doesn't have any vulnerabilities.
I'm dreaming of course, it's gonna have holes like everything else.

[qparadox]

Still the same problem that hundreds of millions of people _have_ to install the shield before it slows the spread of problems. Most of the worms we see exploit _old_ problems of months past that people haven't patched.

[MJO]

Yeah, most people doesn't even know what windowsupdate is.
That is the biggest problem, some doesn't update because they believe the system becomes slower.

What is needed, is education.
But I don't think it would help much.